. >> washington has warned u.s. citizens to take precautions while traveling. they have issued a global alert after a string of gel breaks the ninth countries saw senior al qaeda figures sprung. let's get some analysis on john.ith thank you for being with us. what more do we know about the nature of this threat given the u.s. closing diplomatic missions across a huge area for several days? >> obviously we are not in the context of noises that are received every day including threats, analysis from various parts of the world. we are clearly in the context of intercepted messages. it is combining to establish imminent rets on the various interest in the region that is quite vast. the threat remains very positive regarding the messages that were intercepted. >> there has been a lot of criticism recently. some people are saying is this pure true incidents that we have such major wrecked confirmation. seems like the need for security surveillance. >> we are facing a major threat. this is generally explained why they have the ability to listen to such messages. they